X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <32668723.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <32668723.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:28:55 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: /proc/*/cmdline corrupted From: Jon Clugston To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id p9HNTFVD014814 On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:47 PM, jan.kolar wrote: > > >> Jon Clugston wrote: >> I tried to reproduce by creating long command lines to other commands >> and none were corrupted. > I tried two now. > The first one turned out to be a script around xterm. :-( > The second fails the test: >  xwininfo.exe -display :0 -children & >>>> tty0     00:00:00 xwininfo -children  -children > > The third fails as well: >  xcalc -bg blue -fg green & >>>> tty0     00:00:00 xcalc  blue -fg green > > >> Does "xterm" step on its command line? > If it can it does. Now (!sorry) I remember seeing that in nineties. From some light code inspection on my part and more thorough investigation from others here, it seems to be the X libraries mangling the command lines of any X program that calls them (when they use common parameters). I would say this is a bug in the X libraries. I wouldn't expect cygwin to try to prevent this dubious practice by application code. Jon > -- > View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/-proc-*-cmdline-corrupted-tp32639066p32668723.html > Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > -- > Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple